For answers, we went to the growers, well, their industry representatives, the Hazelnut Marketing Board, the Oregon Hazelnut Commission, the Nut Growers Society of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, and the Associated Oregon Hazelnut Industries.

Oregon growers have been ramping up to meet growing demand for hazelnuts, particularly for spreads like Nutella, as Elliot Njus of The Oregonian wrote this week. Michael Klein of the Oregon Hazelnut Marketing Board told Njus that in the last seven years hazelnut acreage has grown in Oregon by 50 percnt.